Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe I LOVE NY Robert DeNiro, Regis Philbin and Jerry Orbach are among the entertainers who'll team up with New York Gov. George Pataki for a $40 million advertising campaign to boost tourism in New York. Advertisement "The campaign not only sends a message to America and the world that New York is open for business, but makes a strong statement that we will never surrender our freedoms or back down form a challenge," Pataki said. "After watching the best of America right here in New York in the aftermath of the evil attack on the World Trade Center, I know that people from around the world join us when we say, 'I Love New York.'" The campaign to encourage business travelers and tourists to come back to New York in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks will feature a television ad with Derek Jeter, Regis Philbin, Kelly Ripa, Ben Stiller, Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. They'll begin to air nationally next week. Advertisement (Thanks to UPI's William M. Reilly in New York) THINGS WE DON'T UNDERSTAND One of the suspected terrorists in the Sept. 11 suicide attacks in New York and Washington reportedly left a will that said he wanted to be buried "next to good Muslims." The German magazine Der Spiegel quoted the will of Mohammed Atta also ordering that women be banned from attending his funeral. Atta's will, written in 1996, was discovered in a bag at Boston's Logan Airport. Analysts said it shows that Atta had planned for years to die in the name of Islam. The publication said Atta -- the hijacker believed to have piloted the first aircraft into the World Trade Center -- also instructed that a third of his money go to the poor and needy and that his books be given to a mosque. NEWS OF OTHER LIFE FORMS Workers at "Ground Zero" found a living creature Tuesday -- Precious, a 9-pound Persian cat who had survived on her own since the Sept. 11 damage of her owner's apartment building during the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York City. The cat's owners were out of town and had given up hope of ever seeing their kitty after their 114 Liberty St. apartment building was so damaged that it will be unfit for occupancy for several months. Advertisement The rescuers believe the cat survived by drinking from rain puddles trapped in the wreckage. TODAY'S SIGN THE WORLD IS ENDING Scam artists apparently are trying to make a fast buck preying on the families of the victims of the Sept. 11 suicide attacks on the World Trade Center. New York City Mayor Giuliani warned Tuesday that some families have told the city they've been offered the opportunity to purchase urns that contained something from the World Trade Center. "People are trying to sell something and it's fraudulent," he said. "They are trying to deceive you and people shouldn't purchase anything like that." Giuliani said in the next several weeks a wooden urn with some soil from the World Trade Center would be given by the city to all of the families who lost a relative in the World Trade Center attack. AND FINALLY, TODAY'S UPLIFTING STORY Country's Randy Travis has become the latest artist to make a new patriotic song available for radio airplay. The news provider country.com reports that Travis wrote "America Will Always Stand" just days after the Sept. 11 attacks and has since gone into a Nashville recording studio to commit it to plastic. Ever-present songwriters Mike Curtis, Yvonne Sanson, Becky Bluefield and Doc Walley also contributed to the effort. Advertisement This is the second time that Travis has recorded a pro-America song during time of need. His "Point of Light" was heard all over the charts during the Gulf War. All proceeds from "America Will Always Stand" will go to the American Red Cross. (Thanks to UPI Feature Reporter Dennis Daily)
